I am not Metmom, but I know of a solid local Baptist congregation who had an elder who was found to be a child molester.
I didn't know that metmom was Baptist.
They Matthew 18 and confronted him. They prayed with him. He did repent, but he is no longer an elder and they immediately reported him to the authorities and obviously is never again allowed to be alone with children. This is standard proceedure in biblical churches, and has always been.
I thought that you were PCA. However, were there any other repercussions to this elder? Was he excommunicated?
What is the history of your church on child molesters?
In my diocese, there are a half dozen priests and other clergy over the last 30 years that have been jailed. All have been removed from the ministry of the Church and been excommunicated. The bishop who oversaw some of this has has his name over the local Catholic university's library removed in shame (as well as our KofC Council's founding name) and been convicted of abetting (or some such). I don't believe that he has been excommunicated, but as he is still alive, the possibility still exists, since the investigation is still going on.
You still don't know.
Nice try but a epic fail.....
I do not know if Metmom is Baptist. I didn’t say that she is. I have no clue which church she attends, but from her testimony I know that she belongs to the church of Christ and is a member of His body. You might want to go back and read things more thoroughly. I sense a lot of confusion on your part because you seem to keep asking the same questions multiple times and distort what I posted.
Different Protestant and Reformed denominations have their own methods of knowing whether someone has been denied fellowship or is somehow under church discipline if the person is honest. Just like the Roman church. It all depends on the person. Someone who is excomunicated from the Roman church can go to any church and eat the wafer. Nobody will stop them at the door - even if there are an excommunicated somodomizing ex-priest who is out of prison.
In the end, God knows the heart. The LORD knows who is bringing judgement on themselves by partaking in the Lord’s supper while in rebellion to Him. Man can’t. A big man-made, man-run institution like the Roman church can’t. Nor can a small bible believing country church of 30 people.